FIFA Press Conference at 9AM

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.. well, 15h00 CET (Central European Time, which looks to me like 6 hours ahead of us).

You can watch it here :

Follow the Ex-Co press conference live

Sepp (or one of his minions, probably the recently hired Walter de Gregorio) will go over the events of the last two days of FIFA Ex-Co meetings, and might touch on the Anti-Corruption Reforms expected to be announced today.

Not sure if he's taking questions, but expect a firestorm if he is. FIFA is under a lot of scrutiny these days and people are demanding clarity and answers.

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Blatter to set up a "Committee of Solutions"...

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FIFA to put a woman on the ExCo...

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3 new task forces: for revision of statutes, Ethics committee, Transparency and compliance

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Fifa ex co accepts Congress measures: WC hosts chosen by Congress, new ethics committee, committee of corporate governance & compliance

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some of these updates may be out of sequence - sorry for that.

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Presidents of New Zealand and PAraguay FA's will co-chair the transparency and compliance task force

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Blatter says that "good governance process" will not be completed until June 2013 Congress. Good news is that's in Mauritius

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credit to Paul Kelso (@pkelso) for all these updates

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@jensweinreich - Fifa exco with all corrupt officials is still in charge of road map to reforms. Dont believe their propagada!

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ISL caused "confusion" according to Blatter

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ISL dossier to be opened, says Sepp Blatter

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Blatter "External, independent body to examine ISL docs"

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Paul Kelso asks Blatter if he has considered resigning...

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David Bond asks why FIFA are now tackling corruption after Blatter denied FIFA corruption in 2010

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Hot off the presses :

FIFA to reopen ISL case Blatter announces

By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich

October 21 - FIFA will re-open the case into the collapse of its former marketing partner ISL, president Sepp Blatter announced here today.

Hmm... it's more of a headline than an article - sorry about that. Pop back later for more content.

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Transparency International identified as FIFA advisors.

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"Fifa as an institution is not corrupt, just some of the people who are part of Fifa." Blatter

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Blatter says that he has not considered resigning and will not. "How could I?"

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more on this : FIFA to Release Financial-Scandal Documents

Blatter said Friday that FIFA's executive committee will examine the documents at a meeting in Tokyo in December. Blatter said an independent body would decide how the case will proceed.

looks like FIFA is still attempting to control it's own fate.

[Yagbod]

Thanks Tobor!

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^NP - I think it's wrapped up now... Twitter has been rocking. I'm sure there'll be tons of articles on this shit coming out of the AP, Reuters and the various other agencies and bloggers soon. I'll post the useful stuff here, and if anything cross-references the Corruption thread, then there as well.

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credit where it's due :

@changeFIFA
@RobHarrisUK
@pkelso
@AndrewWarshaw

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Damage control seems evident.

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FIFA seems to be saying that they are aware that there are issues and intend on investigating them and will set up new committees to make sure none of this kind of thing happens again and "right - that's all settled - let's all meet again on the matter in 2013... who's up for a pint ?", and are last seen leaving FIFA house wih Rupert Murdoch close behind.

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Complete article now up :

FIFA to reopen ISL case Blatter announces

Promising to work for "transparency and independence" Blatter announced a radical politics-style timetable to be implemented between now and June 2013 which, he hoped, would conclude with FIFA finally being cleansed of corruption scandals with its credibility restored.

[prizby]

any 3rd party investigations?

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^ the joke going around is that FIFA will hand the ISL docs over to a shredding company.

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Tobor, thanks for all the posts and articles on this. Very interesting times ahead for Fifa.

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^ yeah, well, maybe. When FIFA puts someone on the Transparency and Compliance Task Force who just may be a friend of Nicolas Leoz, one of the chaps named in the ISL docs, you have to wonder how serious they are.